Chicago O’Hare International and UA plan to launch flying taxi services from 2025
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Why take taxis through congested city streets when you can just fly to your final destination? Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. A while ago...
Tesla’s first fully loaded electric Class-8 Semi completes its first 500 mile trip
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF 500 miles is the sweet spot for trucking because truckers have to stop every 8 hours, and this is a major achievement. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
Cruise’s self-driving cars clock up over 1 million miles with noone behind the wheel
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future of self-driving vehicles doesn’t involve a human driver, so companies are trying to perfect their autonomous systems. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....
This hybrid Chinese drone soars like a bird and swims like a fish
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Multi-biome drones could have some very interesting applications, especially in the military … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. You’re used to seeing drones crossing...
Hermeus’s first of a kind Chimera engine switches from supersonic to hypersonic
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF So far noone has cracked the ability to switch an engine from supersonic to hypersonic. That’s now solved. Let the hypersonic era commence! Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
Electric vehicles could meet almost all grid scale storage demands by 2030 study says
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Grid scale storage to balance the energy demands of grids requires massive investment, but what if consumers shouldered almost all of it? Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
Jetopera’s bladeless eVTOL aircraft targets 0.8 Mach
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Bladeless VTOL aircraft make a lot more sense than prop based ones, but getting the technology right is very hard. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...
In a world first scientists used AI and a quantum computer to simulate an actual wormhole
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Who wouldn’t love to jump between blackholes to travel between dimensions and across time? Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Wormholes have been a science...
Volkswagen announces plans to create a hydrogen car with a 2,000km range
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF While most companies are betting big on electric vehicles some are now spreading their bets just in case. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Volkswagen,...
Rolls Royce successfully runs a converted aircraft engine on Hydrogen
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you want to decarbonise air travel then you need new, or modified engines, that can run on new fuels like Hydrogen. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
The world’s first tunnel dug by an autonomous robot swarm was just completed in the UK
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today digging tunnels is slow – as slow as a snail – but this new method makes it exponentially faster and cheaper opening up all manner of possibilities. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
Part aircraft part train this electric Hyperloop could travel at over Mach 1
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF New forms of transport are emerging all the time, and many have bold claims, so we’ll see how this one plays out. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
An autonomous Blackhawk just successfully completed its first mock rescue mission
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Helicopter crews in war time are put at high risk during search and rescue operations but now an autonomous Blackhawk could see pilots grounded. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
A new flying car concept takes its cue straight from Blade Runner
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We won’t in fact have flying cars, they’ll basically be big drones that carry passengers, so this design is about as close to a commercial flying car we could see enter production. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with...
Gravity blows hot air to show off their latest 1,000bhp jet pack
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF This is a great example of how advances in technology are helping increase the energy density of fuels, the performance of materials, and helping people take to the skies in new ways to save lives. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future...
Futurist Keynote, London: The Future of Transportation, Hounslow CC
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF During this keynote session futurist Matthew Griffin discusses the future of transport and mobility, and shines a light on not just how we move goods, people, and services from A to Z, but also the impacts on infrastructure and how we fund this global transformation....
Telsa vehicles will soon be connected to SpaceX’s global space internet system
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Elon Musk has announced on Twitter that all Teslas will soon be using his space based satellite communications system to connect to the internet. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...
The first hydrogen powered trains enter service in Germany
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF For a whole bunch of reasons the transition from polluting fossil fuels is now truly getting underway and it’s great to see it happening. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...
For the first time a flying yacht has made green hydrogen at sea
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Our ability to make zero emissions green hydrogen fuel from renewable sources is getting better all the time, and it will accelerate the energy switch from fossil fuels. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself with...
Open fan engine prototype helps Airbus cut 20 percent of aircraft emissions
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Airbus is exploring the technologies of the past and future to help it create zero emissions aircraft and this latest engine prototype helps save 20% of emissions. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself with courses...
